This weekend I get to spend three days at a writing workshop studying THE EMOTIONAL CRAFT OF FICTION with literary agent and writing coach Donald Maass! I signed up for this workshop so long ago I can’t believe it’s finally here. I’ve recently completed a solid draft of my WIP, so this workshop is just …
This week the Houston writing community is excited to celebrate the launch of a promising new career. At a SCBWI-Houston conference in 2014, Caroline Leech’s historical YA manuscript won the Joan Lowery Nixon award, which meant a mentorship with Newbery Honor author Kathi Appelt. This book also won the YA categories of both the RWA …
KidLit News I got in under the wire this morning to join the giveaway for an ARC of Carter Higgins’s A RAMBLER STEALS HOME! Most of you know Carter from her awesome blog, Design of the Picture Book. I met Carter a few years ago at a SCBWI conference in Washington. I already knew her …